Summary:

• To secure a QA Analyst, Test Automation Engineer position; 6+ years of experience in Quality Assurance (QA) and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Experienced with various SDLC processes like Waterfall & Agile Methodologies.
• Experienced in testing Mobile applications & Mobile Web testing on various mobile operating systems.
• Proven track record to handle the testing phase from Planning-Estimation-Execution either completely or work in a team to deliver high quality code to Production.
• Experienced in development, review and enhancements of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Report documentation, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Provide effort estimates based on the requirements.
• Hands on experience on Test Estimation, Test Planning, Test Scheduling, Test Designing, Defect reporting and tracking, Test result analysis.
• Experience in performing different kinds of testing like Black Box, GUI, Functionality, Integration, Regression, Usability, System and User Acceptance (UAT).
• Experienced in Test management tools (HP) like Quality Center and Test Director.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Bug Tracking Reports using Bug tracking Tool like Quality Center.
• Excellent skills in Automation Testing using HP QuickTest Pro (QTP).
• Experienced in writing scripts using VB script and C.
• Performed Back-End testing by writing SQL queries to retrieve data from database.
• Experienced in Performance, Load and Stress testing using LoadRunner.
• Excellent team player with very good communication skills.
• Highly dedicated to produce professional work with highest quality.
• Can work well under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Ability to maintain a flexible work style and function effectively with changing directives and priorities.

Education:

Bachelors of Science, Accounting
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Computer Skills:

Testing Tools: HP Quality center, TestDirector, QuickTest Professional, LoadRunner
Programming Languages: C/C++, VB.Net, Java,VB Script, JavaScript, HTML, XML, PL/SQL,
Data Bases: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL
Operating Systems: Windows, Unix/Linux

Professional Experience

Confidential, Washington, DC
October 2010 - Present
QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for writing Test plan and creating test cases based on technical specifications and business requirements.
• Reviewed requirements and design walkthrough with Business analysts and developers.
• Used Star Team for accessing all Project documentation and Caliber for reviewing Project requirements.
• Prepared Test Traceability Matrix to confirm the test coverage.
• Performed manual testing of System module that involved UI Based functional testing and backend testing.
• Identified Shakedown scripts for conducting entry criteria before start of Component integration testing & System integration test Phases.
• Actively involved in black box, functional, negative testing of the application.
• Extensively used Quality center for storing all Test plan documents, Test case documents and record defects.
• Interacted with developers and business Users to communicate the defects and actively participated in replicating the bugs and performed regression testing using Quality Center.
• Created Test Data using SQL that involves interaction Kaiser Permanente's interface partners.
• Wrote Complex PL/SQL quires for backend testing.
• Created & executed Automation scripts for re-usable components using HP QuickTest Professional.
• Created automation test scripts by inserting checkpoints, parameters, output values, and use regular expressions using QTP.
• Worked with actions and handled unexpected events that occur during a test run using VB script in QTP.
• Conducted Regression testing after completion of System integration testing using QTP.
• Used LoadRunner to create Vuser Scripts using VuGen, used Controller to generate and executed LoadRunner scenarios.
• Involved in Capacity Planning for load testing various web services using HP Load Runner.
• Conducted Load testing to generate the load on the server by creating Vuser scripts in LoadRunner.
• Performed Integration readiness Test (IRT) to validate all web interfaces for the system module. This included Web services to external systems like Foundation Systems, National pricing system.
• Involved in Integration testing; and user acceptance testing(UAT).

Environment: QuickTest Pro, Quality Center, Windows, SQL, Java, JSP, Struts, Shell Scripts, LoadRunner.

Confidential, Chevy Chase, MD
November 2008 - September 2010
Software Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Ensured all requirements gathered were used in both Test Plan and Test Case development.
• Reviewed the Business and System requirements. Attended core team meeting and walk-through for review and resolution of Business and System requirements.
• Created Test Plan, gathered test data and created Test Cases, Matrices and scripts.
• Involved in analyzing system specifications, designing and development of test plan for applications to meet client's requirements.
• Updated to management every day about the testing status like completed test cases, percentage of completion and defects etc.
• Performed GUI, Ad-hoc, Functional, Regression, System, Integration, UAT, Performance and Load/Stress Testing.
• Upload all test cases in HP Quality Center to track the defects, fails and passes.
• Followed-up the Development team every day about the defects fixing status using Quality Center; updated every day about defect management process.
• Identified, Documented, and Tracked defects in Quality Center.
• Involved in defect tracking, defect reporting, analyzing results and documenting using Quality center.
• Wrote SQL quires to test the backend database.
• Verified the integration of various components in the application and executed end-to-end testing.
• Extensively tested UI based functionality for components like Rate Agreement, Contract management, eligibility rules, enrolment rules, auto renewal based functionality.
• Set up the testing environment in the Test Lab for System, Integration, and Regression Testing.
• Coded and executed automated test scripts using QuickTest Pro.
• Responsible for developing automated test cases within QTP and custom scripting as appropriate to the test case.
• Created VB scripts by recording user actions and wrote re-usable functions.
• Performed Regression Testing of the Product during each version release for all the Clients using HP QuickTest Professional.
• Used LoadRunner to try to be like real-life scenario loads to analyze details, and to explore the system behavior.
• Used LoadRunner to monitor Performance and Stress of the application in pick times.
• Coordinated User Acceptance Test (UAT) processes and documented and addressed all the issues during the process.
• Interacted with the development configuration and operation\'s team to ensure the quality of software to user expectations.

Environment: HP Quality Center, QuickTest Professional, LoadRunner, SQL Server.

Confidential, Waltham, MA
July 2006 - November 2008
Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Wrote/ Modified Test plans, Test cases and Test Scripts.
• Conducted Ambiguity Review meetings on the functional requirements and present the Test Scripts to the business and Development to cover the orphan areas in the test documents.
• Enhanced the scripts through programming and adding the verification points to test the functionality/Business requirements.
• Extensively interacted with the developers to know the functionality of the application and to resolve the defects.
• Executed the Test cases and automated test scripts.
• Wrote the functional Test Cases using TestDirector as per our requirements.
• Reported the defects and test log matrixes to the manager on regular basis while in the test phase using TestDirector.
• Used TestDirectorfor Reports and Defect tracking. Reported the weekly status / issues/defects.
• Wrote SQL Quires for backend testing.
• Developed automation scripts using QTP as per our business requirements.
• Performed Regression testing using QTP during the Release Test cycle before QA sign off.
• Maintained all the testing documentation.

Environment: JAVA, MS SQLServer, Windows , QTP, TestDirector.